Art: Sailors and Floozies

With Paul Cadmus, a babyfaced, 35-year-old Manhattan painter, a
favorite subject has always been the U. S. Navy gamboling on shore
leave among tousled trollops and floozies. Six years ago, when one of
Cadmus' shore-leave frolics was hung in a Public Works of Art Project
exhibition in Washington's Corcoran Gallery, the late Admiral Hugh
Rodman, U.S.N. got good & mad. Said he: "It represents a most
disgraceful, sordid, disreputable drunken brawl wherein apparently a
number of enlisted men are consorting with a party of streetwalkers. .
. . This is an unwarranted insult....